Expanding family of π-conjugated trinuclear dithiolenes: the cases of group 8 (Ru(II)) and 10 (Ni(II) and Pt(II)) metals

Tetsuya Kambe; Satoru Tsukada; Ryota Sakamoto; Hiroshi Nishihara

doi:10.1021/ic200766p

Expanding family of π-conjugated trinuclear dithiolenes: the cases of group 8 (Ru(II)) and 10 (Ni(II) and Pt(II)) metals

Inorg Chem. 2011 Aug 1;50(15):6856-8. doi: 10.1021/ic200766p. Epub 2011 Jul 7.

Authors

Tetsuya Kambe¹, Satoru Tsukada, Ryota Sakamoto, Hiroshi Nishihara

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan.

PMID: 21736302
DOI: 10.1021/ic200766p

Abstract

New π-conjugated trinuclear dithiolenes with group 8 (6, Ru(II)) and 10 (7 and 8, Ni(II) and Pt(II)) metals were synthesized. Compounds 6 and 7 exhibited intense electronic communication through the phenylene bridge among the three dithiolene moieties during oxidation of the metalladithiolene rings, which has not been confirmed in the analogous family of group 9 metals, 1-5. Compound 8 exhibited an intense absorption band across the visible and near-IR regions, which was assigned as a charge transfer to the diimine and was red-shifted and broadened compared to the corresponding band of the mononuclear complex.